Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress: A marathon tests a runner's endurance.
- n. The state or fact of persevering: Through hard work and endurance, we will complete this project.
- n. Continuing existence; duration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Continuance; duration.
- n. Continuance in bearing or suffering; the fact or state of enduring stress, hardship, pain, or the like; a holding out under adverse force or influence of any kind: as, the endurance of iron or timber under great strain; a person's endurance of severe affliction.
- n. Ability to endure; power of bearing or suffering without giving way; capacity for continuance under stress, hardship, or infliction; as, to test the endurance of a brand of steel; that is beyond endurance, or surpasses endurance.
- n. Delay; procrastination.
- n. [The meaning of the word in the above extract has been disputed, some thinking it equivalent to durance, confinement; others, to suffering.] Synonyms and Fortitude, etc. (see patience); permanence, persistence, continuance, suffering, sufferance, tolerance.
Wiktionary
- n. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
- n. Ability to endure hardship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
- n. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of surviving; remaining alive
- n. the power to withstand hardship or stress
Examples
“Even if you're genetically predisposed to see little improvement in endurance, "it doesn't mean that you don't get any benefit from exercise," Rankinen says.”
“However, with a five-pack battery configuration, endurance is said to be 2.25 to 2.5 hours.”
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“Iron Profile – a key physiologic component for oxygen transport/extraction and deficiencies are prevalent in endurance athletes (notably females)”
“Precedents, as formed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, stand as nearly Constitutional in endurance, and AS Constitutional in power and effect.”
“I have felt, at times, stretched beyond my comfort but know I will eventually gain endurance and flexibility – just as I have severely wobbled with futility on occasion and am looking forward to the balance which will, inevitably, be acquired through practice.”
“Effects of oral supplementation with cysteine and theanine on the immune function of athletes in endurance exercise: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.”
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“Athletes may have trained with or against Matt in endurance races and on the basketball court, while others may have been directly or indirectly touched by his work as a New York City Fireman.”
“The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.”
“Also, my endurance is improving -- I can keep coming back at something now after I've failed it repeatedly, so I got a second 5.7.”
“Take into consideration that a certain level of strength and endurance is needed [...]”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘endurance’.
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hard; lasting
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Ships of Fame
Famous ship names that I've heard of and/or like. Includes airships. See also the list Ships, if you want to.
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Just like it says
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Norman Lewis
All Words
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Learning
Want to speak fluent english. so learning words.
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TT1 Lesson 8
sedan, sensible, imagine, race, endurance, Elantra, over, through, time, by, make sense, automobile and 15 more...
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List 18
Derivatives from Chapter 18 of Part One of English Words from Latin and Greek Elements
excrescence, predigested, endurance, commodities, fervor, renascence, repository, conscience, sonorously, dispensary, confluence, clamorous and 8 more...
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traits (good)
good, virtuous traits that are common in human behaviour.
goto traits (neutral)
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Tweets
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travismcdermott 1494 FABYAN V.cxxix. 111 Some accompt ye enduraunce therof to the laste yere of Burdredus. 1692 LADY RUSSELL Lett. II. cxxxvii. 112 The joys of eternal endurance. Apr 20, 2008